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nigma

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About nigma

Over 15 years in software engineering, machine learning, project management at scale, remote and freelance. Problem solver, supporter of internet privacy, traveler. Seeks joy in small, simple things of life.

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https://github.com/nigma/

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    I'm having a lot of fun chatting with characters using Faraday and koboldcpp. Faraday has a great UI that lets you adjust character profiles, generate alternative model responses, …

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    I hate this kind of clickbait marketing suggesting the project is delivering 1/100 of the size or 100x-35000x the speed of other solutions because it uses a different language for …

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    Comment #36316898

    I’m using Jupyter Book ( https://jupyterbook.org/ ) to build all kinds of daily reports and it works really well. Individual notebooks can also be converted to HTML or pdf with nbc…

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    Mine came with a manual in German and some hardly readable photocopy of a translation written on a typewriter. That was a steep learning curve for a kid. Fortunately there were a l…

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    Comment #33795214

    Just guessing, but there may be other devices providing DNS service on your network. For example I have found that AppleTV is listening for DNS queries on a couple ports and MacOS …

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    Comment #33595362

    Wavelets are fun. I first heard about them in the early 2000s when I read about JPEG 2000 image compression format [1]. Back then the primary tool to play with signal transformatio…

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    There are many reasons for using other databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL in production - feature set, (managed) hosting, backup and replication, etc. SQLite is primarily embedded/…

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    Comment #22268153

    The MBP 2015 with discrete GPU is hardwired to output video signal through AMD M370X. It can get quite noisy when just connected to an external display.

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    Comment #19227560

    Apple is creating a false sense of privacy with their privacy-focused marketing. I appreciate their efforts building secure products but without a way to block or filter 3rd party …

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    Comment #19144762

    It looks that Miranda IM (initial release in February 2000) is still actively developed - https://www.miranda-ng.org/ .

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    Comment #15692105

    Why software updates and especially security bug fixes are not covered by manufacturer warranty as it is with hardware issues? Or maybe they are but no one enforces that? In other …

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    It depends on the revisit time, spatial resolution, region of interest, cloud coverage and product type. For example Landsat 8 images the entire Earth every 16 days, Sentinel-2 rev…

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    Comment #15630746

    They already provide Earth Engine platform which is more complete both in terms of available datasets as well as developer APIs. AWS product basically consists of open remote sensi…

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    Comment #14505514

    I turned off JavaScript and Cookies for all sites a few months ago and only whitelist (or open in another Chrome profile) when they refuse to display or need an authenticated sessi…

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    Comment #14311035

    The 4G-AC55U router is also vulnerable but did not receive a security firmware update (last firmware release was a year ago on 2016-05-20) and is not listed on the page. If you hap…

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    Comment #14042709

    Telemetry at the OS level bothers me to the point that I'm not Windows user anymore and I I'm not planning to become one anytime soon. But to be fair one should point out that Appl…

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    Comment #13710654

    For clarification, the Docker Community Edition appeared in the Docker for Mac beta channel, but it looks there is no official announcement yet of the upcoming editions. The link l…

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    Comment #7990251

    This is a nice list. There's also https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python , which is a bit more comprehensive.

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    Comment #7211084

    Using Python 3.3: import base64 base64.urlsafe_b64decode(s)

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    Comment #7162309

    SEEKING WORK - Remote or on-site (Europe/US) Backend and frontend development, mobile APIs, devops. I usually do Python, Django, mobile backends, PostgreSQL/*DB, JS, Angular, Scala…

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    Comment #6375156

    They are generating PDF for online viewing. Go to your files on dropbox site and click on a .doc file. A preview popup will appear. Open/LibreOffice with Python bridge is quite han…

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